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dudko

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Registered: 2010-03-04

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Seagate Expansion drive

I've just bought Seagate Expansion Portable 500GB Hard Drive and can't umount it safely, because disk is spinning. I think, if this will continue, the disk will be definitely damaged.

Any ideas?

Last edited by dudko (2011-02-17 18:17:41)

tarun.hellknight

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Registered: 2010-11-30

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Re: Seagate Expansion drive

Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1 TB is working fine for me here.. what kind of error do you get when you try to umount it?

dudko

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Registered: 2010-03-04

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Re: Seagate Expansion drive

I'm not getting errors, just when I unplug disk, it makes terrible sound, like it crashed. Under win XP, the green indicator turns off and disks slow down.

Last edited by dudko (2011-02-16 13:53:08)

Mr.Elendig

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Re: Seagate Expansion drive

tried umount + eject? Or maybe force a spindown using hdparm?

Last edited by Mr.Elendig (2011-02-16 14:43:26)

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dudko

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Registered: 2010-03-04

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Re: Seagate Expansion drive

umount and eject with same result.

could you please be more concrete about the spindown?

mario.torme

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Registered: 2011-01-22

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Re: Seagate Expansion drive

I have the same model. To unmount I give safely remove from the panel on the left without any problem. If I try to unmount directly from the folder of the drive I have:

Unable to stop drive
This file cannot be stopped